New Delhi, April 10 -- Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a sharp attack at WhatsApp over the app's promise of end-to-end encryption. Durov accused the company of not only reading users' private messages but also sharing them with third-party services and called it the 'bigget consumer fraud in history'.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Durov wrote, "WhatsApp's "encryption" may be the biggest consumer fraud in history - deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users' messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this - and never will ��"

The message by Durov came shortly after XAI chief Elon Musk attacked the personal messaging app as well, stating that "WhatsApp cannot ...